Paul Balchin, Maureen Rhoden

Housing Policy In The United States (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Housing Policy in the United States is an essential guidebook to, and textbook for, housing policy, it is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in the field, introduces key concepts and institutions, and examines the most important programs. Written as an introductory text, it explains all concepts, trends, and programs without jargon, and includes empirical data concerning program evaluations, government documents, and studies carried out by the author and other scholars.

The first chapters present the context surrounding US housing policy, including basic trends and problems, the housing finance system, and the role of the federal tax system in subsidizing homeowner and rental housing. The middle chapters focus on individual subsidy programs. The closing chapters discuss issues and programs that do not necessarily involve subsidies, including homeownership, mixed-income housing, and governmental efforts to improve access to housing by reducing discriminatory barriers in the housing and mortgage markets. The concluding chapter also offers reflections on future directions of US. housing policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000143621
• Artikelnr.: 60431565

Autorenporträt

Paul Balchin is Reader in Urban Economics and. Maureen Rhoden is Senior Lecturer in Housing Studies. Both are based at the University of Greenwich.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
List of abbreviations
Chapter
1 Introduction
Part I Supply of new and renovated housing
Chapter
2 Housing investment
Chapter
3 Housebuilding
Chapter
4 Housing rehabilitation policy
Part II Housing markets and housing tenure
Chapter
5 Housing finance
Chapter
6 Private rented housing
Chapter
7 Local authority housing
Chapter
8 Privatisation and stock transfer
Chapter
9 Housing associations
Chapter
10 Owner
occupation
Part Ill Single issues in housing policy
Chapter
11 Affordability
Chapter
12 Regional disparities and problems
Chapter
13 Urban regeneration
Chapter
14 Social exclusion
Chapter
15 Housing and community support
Chapter
16 Housing and the elderly
Chapter
17 Gender and housing
Chapter
18 Black and Asian minorities and housing
Chapter
19 Homelessness
Chapter
20 Conclusions
Postscript
References
Index.